To think everything will be unrecognisable in 50 years

Incredible, @DorsetKnobBiscuit. Must have been electric to be part of that crowd!

Socio-economic discriminator or racist? It’s a fine line.

Dont worry OP, in 50 years we’ll all be dead and AI will rule the world.

I was in Glasgow yesterday. I was mainly in the West End so lots of English accents. Still felt Scottish though. Also didn’t feel dodgy in the centre despite the recently bad publicity but my friend’s DCs are at uni there and have talked to her about where the dodgy parts are and when they know to avoid.

I live elsewhere in Scotland and my DCs went/go to a school with a lot of kids with a diverse cultural background. DC2’s closest friends have an ethnic heritage from countries in North Africa and the ME. One wants to be a doctor, the other a lawyer. One plays the same online games as
DC, the other goes to the same parties. DC met up this weekend with a (different) bunch of kids who recently left school. None are white, I don’t know the ethnic heritage of all are but I had a chat to one of them a few days ago who said how grateful to their parents they were for coming to the UK as they much preferred it for reasons they listed to their parents home country. These are lovely clever polite and respectful hard working kids, at university and ambitious.

We might talk about “communities” as if this draws lines of separation but communities are multi-layered and can also bring us together. You can’t just look around and go “oooh, demographic change”. There are complications but we need to keep talking, be honest, acknowledge and address them. It’s not an inevitable disaster zone.

I don't know what your problem is with me, but it's starting to get annoying. For the umpteenth time, I have never once claimed that there is no such thing as British culture. I have asked you to quote back the post(s) where you believe that I said that, but you haven't done so, so I presume that you know they don't exist.

My point all along has been that British culture is constantly evolving and changing, and that as such, there will inevitably be different interpretations of what it actually is.

I'm glad that you seem to have come round to this point of view.

Hopefully we can agree that the video shared by @DorsetKnobBiscuit is a very fine example of contributions from an immigrant becoming a much-loved part of our ever-evolving British culture.

DC met up this weekend with a (different) bunch of kids who recently left school. None are white.

Really? That's quite surprising given that Scotland is, according to the last census, 96% white. And that figure is skewed by Glasgow and to a lesser extent Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen.

The UK is a small densely populated country. There are strong regional cultures. I wouldn’t risk telling someone from Yorkshire there is no Yorkshire culture and I think if you asked someone who had lived in Yorkshire for even a short period of time what the region’s traits were they would be able to tell you, even if it’s just because they had been specifically told themselves.

Why is that surprising? My closest friends in school were Nigerian and Malaysian. That was in Ireland in the '80s, which was overwhelmingly white.

Yes. There were 5 of them inc DC. I know one is of Nigerian heritage and one Bangladeshi, no idea about the others. From the chat about “culture day” at the school, I think there are about 80 different nationalities in the heritage of the backgrounds of the kids at the school (I think this includes regions that span other countries that have their own identity).

It’s always been left leaning and is not a true representation.

Poster's son met up with "a bunch of kids" who'd recently left school - none of whom were white. That's pretty surprising given the demographic of Scotland.

Where in Scotland was this?

Do you think I am lying? I met up with a friend who lives on Ayrshire coast and she mentioned that there were only a few non-white kids at her DC’s school. I’m sure that’s the same in the rural
school where I grew up. It’s not the same in cities.

To the poster who said its not older people who are angry - you're clearly not mixing with the right people. My friends and I of that demographic are very angry.
We're angry that our dread of needing medical care is very real, we are sick to death of war and the bullying political culture of the US which is having an effect worldwide on behaviour, we're very concerned about homelessness, the fact the poor are getting poorer, the general attitude of disrespect permeating from politics down to everyday interactions, the casual racism and I could go on . . .

My 21y adores music and says the 80s and 90s were the best by far!

In what tangible ways does the culture you grew up in no longer exist? I am Scottish and lived and worked in Glasgow for almost 25 years and I don't recognise what you are talking about at all. Yes, Glasgow is more diverse than it once was, but the BME population is still less than 20% and it's also a much more vibrant place than it was in the 1990s. What has changed is an optimism for the future that came about as a result of the Garden Festival and the City of Culture status that led to investment in the city. We've not lost that optimism because of immigration or increased cultural diversity. It's happened as a result of decades of austerity and public funding cuts.

I'm in Edinburgh. My son went to school in Edinburgh. His school was by a large majority white.